Student gets into Stanford with #BlackLivesMatter x100

Now this story is much more fun. And she turned down Yale. LOL.

http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/girl-yale-penning-essay-papa-johns-pizza/story?id=47765374

I wonder if she was able to get more money from Auburn? She must have had good stats also.

I’m very late to this party, but have now read a lot more about the situation, including articles in which this kid is quoted and relating to the organizations he’s founded or is associated with. As a result, I’ve come to believe that he’s a relentlessly self-promoting, manufactured product, curated and groomed over many years by his family, who’ve lavished a great deal of money and care on the project.

Irrespective of how much he actually believes what he says, he’s been packaged and polished to an expensively high gloss. And no matter how smart, ambitious and driven he may be, much of what he’s accomplished would not have been possible for someone with a less-privileged background.

I think the universities that admitted him may not be entirely unaware of this, either; I believe they may have concluded that, for better or for worse, he’ll eventually be an influential member of society and that he and his family have been or would be very generous to whichever school he chose to attend. In short, I think actual, committed BlackLivesMatter activists may have been right to view what he did as a performative appropriation of their experience for his gain.

He will be forgotten soon, and he will make no influence on anything in the future. His goal this time was to get on a train that he didn’t have a ticket, and he will be thrown out of the train at the next stop.

Good thing is that this has nothing to do with Stanford, though Stanford blinked its eyes for a split second.